“Malinov has made the comment in an interview with the Bulgarian National Radio in the aftermath of an incident near Bulgaria’s border with Turkey, where a supposedly Afghan migrant Migrant+Shot+Dead+in+Bulgaria+near+Border+with+Turkey” was killed by a border police bullet.
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The move was announced by the country’s foreign minister Peter Szijjarto, who said he expects the number of refugees to “slow to a trickle” after shutting the crossing. “None of the migrants were armed, but they put up resistance”.
Members of the group were aged between 20 and 30 and were detained from the Bulgarian-Turkish border.
Tusk said Turkey would have to meet its commitments to help control the flow of migrants, mostly fleeing the war in Syria, and ensure that their asylum requests were properly dealt with.
On Wednesday the Hungarian government said it had completed a fence along its border with Croatia and that it was ready to seal the frontier.
European Council President Donald Tusk said that Borissov informed him prior to leaving. “One of the officers fired warning shots and, in his words, one of the migrants was wounded by a ricochet and later died”.
The worldwide Organization for Migration said yesterday more than 613,000 migrants and refugees have crossed the Mediterranean to Europe since the beginning of the year and more than 3,100 have died trying.
He added that Bulgaria “was one of the first European countries facing major migratory pressure and which took urgent measures to ensure the adequate protection of the EU’s external borders”.
Merkel, whose country says it expects up to a million asylum applications this year, said she wanted “clear signals” that European countries would provide personnel to boost border forces, as well as stumping up more money.
Bulgaria has agreed to receive 852 refugees under the EU’s system of distributing immigrants.
Most travel further west through the so-called Balkan corridor from Greece through Macedonia, Serbia and Croatia.
Turkey will work with European leaders to prevent smugglers from pushing migrants to Europe.
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Officials also pledged to re-evaluate Turkey’s application to join the EU.
